New Site is Coming Along

I am really excited about the progress we are making with the new site. Right now, our homework question and answer service uses http://www.question2answer.org/ software--an open source easy to install application. It's a great product for what it does --which is provide a stackexchange like question and answer board.

However, after using question2answer for some time, there were too many ways in which it did not meet our needs including: 1) not providing any kind of compensation for the experts who tend to answer all of the questions 2) offering a rather inflexible user profile accounts that lacked features we wanted like user ratings, comments 3) not providing the sort of hierarchical organization that subjects tend to have (ie calculus is a subcategory of Math while Java is a subcategory of Programming). To be completely clear, I think that question2answer is great, but it is just not a marketplace.

But if we are going to create a marketplace for math homework help, it became clear that a different platform was needed, and we are getting there. The new site looks awesome (see the screenshots at the bottom). It is a veritable homework marketplace where you can post math homework questions, state how much money you would pay to get help. After that tutors/experts can reply by sending you a preview of their answer. If you like their preview, you can buy the answer to your question. Here are some screenshots: